Jul 11
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Voice in Political Discourse
Subtitle: Castro, Chavez, Bush and their Strategic Use of Language
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/voice-in-political-discourse-9780567003584/
Author: Antonio Reyes
Paperback: ISBN: 9780567003584 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
Politicians enact three main roles in political discourse – narrator,
interlocutor and character – to achieve specific goals. This book explains
these roles and how they constitute discursive strategies, correlating with
political aims. In short: politicians evoke voices in discourse to
strategically position themselves in relation to social actors and events. The
book describes these strategies and analyzes the manner in which they are
employed by three very different politicians – Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and
George W. Bush. The roles are studied cross-culturally and from different
ideological backgrounds.
This book explains how political ideologies are constructed, defined and
redefined by linguistic means, showing specific ways in which politicians
manipulate language to achieve the goals on their political agenda. It applies
new methodological approaches to the analysis of political discourse and also
contributes to the sparse literature on political discourse analysis of
Spanish-speaking politicians.
Jul 11
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Sociolinguistics of Writing
Series Title: Edinburgh Sociolinguistics
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
http://www.euppublishing.com
Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748637508
Author: Theresa Lillis
Hardback: ISBN: 9780748637485 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 70.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780748637508 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Abstract:
Brings the study of writing to the heart of sociolinguistic inquiry
This book puts writing at the centre of sociolinguistic inquiry drawing on a
range of academic fields including New Literacy Studies, semiotics, genre
studies, stylistics and new rhetoric. The key question the book explores is-
what do we mean by ‘writing’ in the 21 century? Using examples from across a
range of contexts the book argues that writing, involving both old and new
technologies, is a pervasive and complex communicative feature of contemporary
life.
The book is organised around the following areas:
– The multimodal nature of writing
– The verbal dimension to writing
– Writing as everyday practice
– Writing as a differentiated semiotic and social resource
– Writing as the inscription of identity
A range of analytic tools for analysing writing as text and practice are
illustrated including genre, register, discourse and metaphor, as well as
notions which emphasise the mobile potential of writing such as genre chains,
networks, literacy brokers and text trajectories. This book seeks to redress
the neglect of writing in the field of sociolinguistics by introducing readers
to the nature and consequences of what it means to do writing in a globalised
world.
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